Taking a reference to a list actually returns a list of references to each item in the original list. ... probably ... good ... to avoid ...:

$arrayref = \(...);

E.g.:

c:\@Work\Perl\monks>perl -wMstrict -le
"my $not_really_an_arrayref = \('one', 'two', 'three');
 print $$not_really_an_arrayref;
"
three
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